Tropico: the Glendale Train Station

The smashing WaterAndPower.org (with its extensive historical photographs and history) states that the architects were Maurice Couchot and Kenneth MacDonald, Jr., and the station was built in 1923, replacing “an older one that dated as far back as 1883.” That older one was the Atwater Tract Station built “soon after Atwater Village became a settlement.”

The depot was bought from Southern Pacific in 1989 by the City of Glendale and $6 million dollars was invested in its restoration and new construction.

The station is now known, rather unglamorously, as the Glendale Amtrak/Metrolink Station. It used to be know as Tropico (a much better name), though we haven’t been able to verify that independently.